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==Languages==
The only official language is Spanish (whose local dialects are collectively called [[Castúo]]), but other languages and dialects are also spoken. The [[Fala language|Fala]], a [[Galician-Portuguese]] language, is a specially protected language and is spoken in the valley of [[Jálama]]. The [[Extremaduran language]], the collective name for a group of vernacular dialects related to [[Leonese language|Leonese]]<ref>[https://archive.today/20130213053710/http://www.unesco.es/ Unesco.es]</ref> is endangered. Local variants of [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] are native to [[Cedillo]] and [[Herrera de Alcántara]].<ref>Maria da Conceição Vilhena. ''Hablas de Herrera y Cedillo''.</ref> Portuguese has also been accounted to be spoken as well by some people (mainly those born before the 1940s<ref>Manuel J. Sánchez Fernández: "[https://www.yumpu.com/es/document/view/12961524/apuntes-para-la-descripcion-del-espanol-hablado-en-olivenza-88-kb Apuntes para la descripción del español hablado en Olivenza]", Revista de Extremadura, 23, 1997, page 110</ref>) in [[Olivenza]].

Reported phonological distinctive features of the Spanish dialectal variants spoken in the region include instances of {{lang|es|[[seseo]]}} (in some areas of the province of Badajoz), loss of [[Intervocalic consonant|intervocalic]] /d/, j and word-initial h [[Aspirated consonant|aspiration]], r → l substitution, and {{lang|es|[[yeísmo]]}}.{{Sfn|González Salgado|2014|p=1157}}